Dream Job - Kathy Exton

Kathy Exton will celebrate her second anniversary July 1 as director of resource development for Williamsburg Community Hospital - a job she calls "the fulfillment of a dream."

Exton has always loved people, especially seniors, and had a keen interest in health care. The job gives her a chance to combine those interests while helping raise money for the community's hospital.

Actually, Exton's local fund-raising career began six years ago when her youngest daughter was a high school sophomore.

"After I had raised my kids and most of the others in the neighborhood, I was looking for something to give me a challenge, a direction," she says.

She joined the development office at The College of William and Mary, where she worked for four years with Duane Dittman, vice president for university advancement. When Dittman retired, Exton thought it was time for her, to move on. She talked with Kenneth Axtell, Williamsburg Community Hospital president, and began her career there.

During the 25 years she has been a resident of the Williamsburg area, Exton estimates she has sung for just about every group at just about every occasion.